If My Feet Have Lost the Ground is a mixed media play, using puppetry and video. It follows Grace, a woman who is constantly working and suspended in flight more often than not. Her view on life... read more »

The Alife Arch project interrogates the provenance and function of several stone fragments in the Brummer Collection of the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University. The project follows the lives of... read more »

I usually dedicate several years to creating a body of work using either silkscreen or relief printing methods, rarely combining the two. I have often thought of these working processes as separate... read more »

Classic portrait of Guillermo Gomez-Pena as a deviant shaman by Chicano photographer Xavier Tavera
Wednesday, February 18-Thursday, February 19, 2015
Various Venues, Duke University
aahvs.duke.edu... read more »

Research & Projects

Visual Arts

Art History

Visual & Media Studies

Undergraduate Programs

We live in an increasingly visual culture, awash with images in an expanding range of media – from painting and sculpture to photography, television, film, video and the internet – and public and private settings – from the gallery and city street to the courtroom, the hospital, and the lecture hall. As visual forms are deployed to entertain, to enlighten, to seduce and persuade us, and as we ourselves increasingly become the objects of surveillance, visual competence and media literacy are central to critical thinking in the twenty-first century. The historical study of art, architecture, and visual and media culture provides a range of practical and intellectual skills, and helps to develop languages necessary to analyze objects, artifacts and the built environment, and to interpret their social impact. Making art enhances our ability to think visually and to resolve spatial problems, and at the same time develops within us the deep satisfactions of creativity.

Graduate Programs

The PhD Program in is committed to preparing you for advanced research in the global visual cultures of the past and present. The Department recognizes that visual literacy plays an increasingly important role in contemporary society. Art, architecture, mass media (television, video, film,... read more »

The Master of Fine Arts in Experimental & Documentary Arts at Duke University brings together two forms of artistic activity — the documentary approach and experimental production in analog, digital, and computational media — in a unique program that fosters collaborations across disciplines... read more »

The M.A. in Historical & Cultural Visualization prepares you for future work in such fields as public history, city planning and architectural design, cultural heritage, museum exhibition design and visualization-based journalism, and provides a springboard for more advanced study in art... read more »

The goal of the program is to produce Law School graduates sophisticated in the understanding of artworks and their histories. Art law is becoming a field of increasing prominence both in legal practice and legal research. For law students interested in the area, an MA in art history provides... read more »